46th Reserve Division (German Empire)

46th Reserve Division
active	October 1914 to August 2, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000

The 46th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

founding

The division was made up of garrisons from IX. and X. Corps formed. Over 75% of the division consisted of volunteers , reservists and officers of the Landwehr . The writer Werner Beumelburg would later coined the term children's regiments. In his books, he referred to the new regiments deployed in Flanders, consisting of inexperienced volunteers, and whose crews he had also belonged to at the time, as children's regiments because of the age of their soldiers . Since the members of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 215 came from Lübeck - Katharineum , Johanneum , teacher seminar , ... - people later also spoke of the Lübeck Children's Regiment .

structure

Division of war from 1914

Division of War of September 10, 1914

• 91st Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 213
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 215
• 92nd Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 214
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 216
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18
• Reserve Cavalry Division No. 46
• Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 46
• Reserve Engineer Company No. 46

Division of War of February 8, 1918

• 92nd Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 214
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 215
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 216
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 46
• Artillery Commander No. 46
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 46
• Engineer Battalion No. 346
• Division News Commander # 446

Battle calendar

1914

• October 18 to November 30 --- Battle of the Yser
  • October 20th to November 11th --- Fights for Bixschoote
• from December 1st --- trench warfare on the Yser

1915

Second battle of Ypres

• until April 21 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
• April 22nd to May 25th --- Fighting for Ypres
• from May 26th --- Trench warfare on the Yser

1916

• until September 5th --- trench warfare on the Yser
• September 5th to October 28th --- Battle of the Somme
• October 31 to December 25 --- Trench warfare in Champagne
• from December 28th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine

1917

• until January 28th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• January 28th to March 14th --- Fighting on the Aisne
• March 15 to April 5 --- Trench warfare on the Aisne
• April 6th to May 27th --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
• May 28th to July 25th --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
• July 25th to December 13th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
  • August 12th to October 9th --- Defense battle near Verdun
• from December 13th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine

1918

• until January 9th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• January 10th to February 4th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
• February 4th to April 27th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• April 28th to June 8th --- Fights on the Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon
• June 9th to July 11th --- Fights on the Avre and Matz
  • June 9-13 --- Battle of Noyon
• July 12th to 17th --- Trench warfare west of Soissons
• July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
• August 2nd --- Division disbanded

Commanders

Hugo von Wasielewski

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Bruno Hahn	August 25, 1914 to May 9, 1915
Lieutenant General	Hugo von Wasielewski	May 10, 1915 to June 18, 1918
Major general	Siegfried von Held	June 19 to July 31, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 70, 140-141.
• Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905. Office of the Adjutant. 1920. pp. 469-472.

Individual evidence

1. ^ To the 2nd division day of the 46th Reserve Division. In: Lübecker General-Anzeiger , 42nd year, no. 120, edition of May 27, 1923.
2. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 179.